Former President Olusegun Obasanjo during an interview with the BBC, said the political instability and rate of unemployment among Africa’s large youthful population is potentially dangerous.
“We are all sitting on a keg of gunpowder,” he said in an interview with Africa Business Report when he was talking about his greatest fear for the continent.
He estimated that 60% of the continent’s population is under the age of 25 and half of those do not have a job.
He suggested that a better education system was one of the answers to the problem.
His comments came in a candid interview about the state of both Africa’s and Nigeria’s economy and politics.
